Michigan State University researchers suspect there is something physiologically different about Honeycrisp apples that leads to such variability in return bloom. “We’ve seen that between four to six fruits per trunk cross-sectional area is the breaking point for return bloom on Honeycrisp,” Dr. Jim Flore said during the Great Lakes Expo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “But even between the four to six fruits, return bloom the following year is still all over the place. Why is it not more clear-cut?” He believes that something else may be going on within the tree and that it may have something to do […]